Course: Selected chapters from modern and contemporary art II

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Course title Selected chapters from modern and contemporary art II
Course code KDT/843
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Frequency of the course Each academic year
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Koleček Michal, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Szoboszlai János György, PhD., M.A.
Course content
1. Analysis and interpretation of art of Ives Klein from the aspect of dematerialisation. 2. Analysis and interpretation of art of J. Cage from the aspect of dematerialisation. 3. Analysis and interpretation of art of T. Schmitt from the aspect of dematerialisation. 4. Analysis and interpretation of art of G. Brecht from the aspect of dematerialisation. 5. Analysis and interpretation of art of H. Haacke from the aspect of dematerialisation. 6. Analysis and interpretation of art of M. Stilinovich from the aspect of dematerialisation. 7. Analysis and interpretation of art of R. Long from the aspect of dematerialisation. 8. Analysis and interpretation of art of D. Hirst from the aspect of dematerialisation. 9. Analysis and interpretation of art of A. Lakner from the aspect of dematerialisation. 10. Analysis and interpretation of art of Gy. Varnai from the aspect of dematerialisation. 11. The synchronicity of dematerialisation and rematerialisation in art practice.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The topic is the process of dematerialisation and rematerialisation in visual art from the beginning of the 20th Century until contemporary art. The course investigates how the meaning has been displaced from the original physical object and visual phenomenon onto the original idea of artworks.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Analysis of the selected problem of art (prezentation, essay - 10 pages)
Recommended literature
  • Allen, G. Intertextuality ? A New Critical Idiom. Routledge, London, 2000.
  • Buchloch, B. H. D. Broodthares ? Writings, Interviews, Photographs. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1988.
  • Danto, A. C. Beyond the Brillo Box. The Noonday Press, New York, 1992.
  • Danto, A. C. The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art. Columbia University Press, New York, 1986.
  • Danto, A. C. The Transfiguration of the Commonplace. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1981.
  • De Duve, T. The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1993.
  • Godfrey, T. Conceptual Art. Phaidon, London, 1998.
  • Kosuth, J. Art after Philosophy (I-II.). Studio International, 1978.
  • Krauss, R. E. The Optical Unconscious. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1994.
  • Lippard, L.; Chandler J. The Dematerialization of Art.. Art International, 1968.


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